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Agenda 3-15-16. Label a clean sheet of notebook paper- Abolitionist Notes On the back copy the chart to the left Consider: What motivates people to act?. Fight Against Slavery. The Second Great Awakening. “Spiritual Reform From Within” [Religious Revivalism].
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Agenda3-15-16 • Label a clean sheet of notebook paper- Abolitionist Notes • On the back copy the chart to the left • Consider: • What motivates people to act?
The Second Great Awakening “Spiritual Reform From Within”[Religious Revivalism] Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality Education Temperance Abolitionism Asylum &Prison Reform Women’s Rights
North Ends Slavery • Slavery ended in the North in the early 1800’s; the ban went into effect state by state, through state laws. No Federal involvement. • Federal government banned slavery in the NW Territory; slavery could not expand.
Abolitionist Movement • 1817American Colonization Society created gradual, voluntary emancipation. British Colonization Society symbol
African Colonization • The American Colonization Society in 1817 pushed for the release of slaves and their return to Africa • Some Northerners support this because they believe that blacks should be separate from whites • Some Southerners support colonization because they would ship away free blacks • 10,000 African Americans go to Africa colonize Liberia
Abolitionist Movement • Create a free slave state in Liberia, West Africa. • No real anti-slavery sentiment in the North in the 1820s & 1830s. Gradualists Immediatists
Abolitionism • Elihu Embree publishes the first abolitionist newspaper in Jonesborough, TN. • The Emancipator
Abolitionism • William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of the The Liberator, first appeared in 1831 and sent shock waves across the entire country • He repudiated gradual emancipation and embraced immediate end to slavery at once • He advocated racial equality and argued that slaveholders should not be compensated for freeing slaves.
The Liberator Premiere issue January 1, 1831
Abolitionism • Free blacks, such as Frederick Douglass, who had escaped from slavery in Maryland, also joined the abolitionist movement • To abolitionists, slavery was a moral, not an economic question • But most of all, abolitionists denounced slavery as contrary to Christian teaching • 1845 The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass • 1847 “The North Star”
Sojourner Truth (1787-1883)or Isabella Baumfree 1850 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Abolitionism: Division and Opposition • Abolitionism forced the churches to face the question of slavery head-on, and in the 1840s the Methodist and Baptist churches each split into northern and southern organizations over the issue of slavery • Even the abolitionists themselves splintered • More conservative reformers wanted to work within established institutions, using churches and political action to end slavery